Acts of Violence

Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim. This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer. It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she's killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who's about to find out just what sort of people he's been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God's 'red right hand'. Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, "Acts of Violence" is a sprawling, cinematic tour-de-force, a terrifying crime novel unlike any other.

ISBN 0230743595   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780230743595 (What's this?)   Pages 250 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Macmillan New Writing   Height (mm) 197 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 130 Publication date 06 Nov 2009   Academic level General DEWEY 813.6

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